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When Higher Education gets involved in our children’s schooling, we risk widening inequalities and creating ethical dangers.
Thousands of students are being signed up to courses that they have little or no chance of completing.
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Tightening regulation will contain the damage but this alone will not address the deeper problems in vocational education.
Lack of funding support shuts out refugees from accessing higher education.
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People seeking asylum and refugees on temporary visas should have access to education funding and loan schemes so they can improve their skills, gain qualifications and contribute to Australia.
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Zuckerburg wants to plough billions into personalised learning, but his way may not be the right way.
When’s enough enough?
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The affordability of college has been at the forefront of the presidential campaign, but the real problem is that we’re too educated for the jobs available.
Graduation at Fudan University in Shanghai. Education is an important instrument in building China’s global status.
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In China, education is more than a means to deliver high skilled labour. The country has constructed its education policy to demonstrate its ambition to become a global power.
Should Humanism be a core part of the syllabus?
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To include Humanism as one of six core religions to study, would do it an injustice.
Students protest over planned increases in tuition fees in Stellenbosch, South Africa.
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South Africa will need about R60 billion a year to rollout free university education. A tax on graduates seems to be a practical solution.
What do you mean you don’t know?
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Do you know why onions make your eyes water? Neither do 83% of parents.
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This spellbinding documentary tells Malala’s story while shining a light on a global injustice
Commenting on which subjects girls find difficult won’t help.
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It’s simple: sexist language should be considered just as unacceptable as racist and homophobic language.
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The UK’s approach to classics in school is a hangover from the days of selective education.
How do we create an education system that works for all?
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New analysis of public data highlights flaws in the education system that is leaving disadvantaged students in the most vulnerable positions.
It’s time to embrace a more collaborative approach to cultural leadership.
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Young, experimental arts practitioners are exploring new ways to think about cultural leadership. But if we see leadership as a form of action rather than a role, how should we teach it?
Children living closest to the mines had the lowest literacy and numeracy scores.
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Children in mining and smelting towns who are exposed high levels of lead, arsenic and cadmium are more than twice as likely to have developmental disorders than the national average.
Saving Syria’s future: plans and funding are being drawn up to educate Syrian refugees.
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Syria needs its children to build a better future, but hundreds of thousands are being deprived of an education.
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New research finds the graduate premium is higher for women than men - but the gender pay gap is still stark.
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Changes to the admissions code will not solve the inherent unsuitability of expectations on children in the early years.
How should you deal with a summer baby?
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Britain is trying to reduce the disadvantages which burden kids born in July and August. But why does it matter so much?
Schools in Indonesia need to be a bit more fun.
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Australian primary school teachers are involved in a social movement to make schools in Indonesia a fun place to learn.